.OverviewAzure Databases SQL Customer Success Engineering is looking for a Senior Engineering Architect who is passionate about the entire Microsoft Data Platform and its potential to enable transformational change at our customers.Azure Database Services are proven cornerstones of many of our largest customers' data landscapes. We are helping accelerate customers' largest projects in new and exciting areas such as AI and data analytics as well as enabling further scalability and optimization of traditional transactional workloads.In this role, you'll be helping our customers drive vital transformational data projects and working alongside our customers, partners, and Microsoft's various field, sales,and engineering teams to assist in these opportunities as well as directly white-gloving complex and strategic SQL Server, Oracle, and OSS database workload modernizations.In this role, you will also be directly contributing back to the continuous development cycle in our core database services by bringing the learnings and observations gathered in these complex engagements back to our wider product teams in order to drive important product development.The Azure Databases SQL Customer Success Engineering team is highly collaborative, data-oriented, and greatly values diversity of thought and ideas.We have a proven track record of delivering deep technical engagements with our customers and helping unblock and accelerate complex data migrations from major RDBMS environments such as SQL Server, db2, Sybase, and Oracle to Azure SQL or Azure PostgreSQL.Our team consists of people from a wide variety of backgrounds as well as professional and life experiences. We are focused on maintaining and growing that diversity as we are certain it makes us better able to understand better the requirements of our diverse customers and their individual projects.QualificationsRequired Qualifications:Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field relevant experience in the areaOr equivalent experienceEnterprise-scale data migration experience from SQL technologies, starting from project scoping to data/app migration and final certification and post-migration optimizations.Preferred Qualifications:Knowledge of other data technologies from other cloud providers such as AWS, GCP, IBM, and Oracle Clouds as well as other emerging technologies such as Vector Databases, RAG, or New/NoSQL.Demonstrated technical thought leadership in customer-facing situations.Ability to drive deep internal engineering conversations on potential strategy toward improving our Azure Data Services and own this input end to end.Other Requirements:Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role
